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Energy Performance of LDPC Scheme in Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Network with Two base Stations Model

10.11591/.v7i2.pp933-941
Younes El Assari , Mounir Arioua , Imad Ez-zazi , Ahmed El Oualkadi
Conservation of the energy is one of the main design issues in wireless sensor networks. The limited battery power of each sensor node is a challenging task in deploying this type of network. The challenge is crucial in reliable wireless network when implementing efficient error correcting scheme with energy consuming routing protocol. In this work, we investigated the energy performance of LDPC code in multi-hop wireless sensor network. We proposed a model of two base stations to prolong the lifetime and build a reliable and energy-efficient network. Through performed MATLAB simulations, we examine the energy effectiveness of multiple base stations model on reliable wireless sensor network performance in different network dimensions.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 933-941
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Voltage Compensation In Wind Power System Using STATCOM Controlled By Soft Computing Techniques

10.11591/.v7i2.pp667-680
Bineeta Mukhopadhyay , Rajib Kumar Mandal , Girish Kumar Choudhary
When severe voltage sags occur in weak power systems associated with grid-connected wind farms employing doubly fed induction generators, voltage instability occurs which may lead to forced disconnection of wind turbine. Shunt flexible AC transmission system devices like static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) may be harnessed to provide voltage support by dynamic injection of reactive power. In this work, the STATCOM provided voltage compensation at the point of common coupling in five test cases, namely, simultaneous occurrence of step change (drop) in wind speed and dip in grid voltage, single line to ground, line to line, double line to ground faults and sudden increment in load by more than a thousand times. Three techniques were employed to control the STATCOM, namely, fuzzy logic, particle swarm optimization and a combination of both. A performance comparison was made among the three soft computing techniques used to control the STATCOM on the basis of the amount of voltage compensation offered at the point of common coupling. The simulations were done with the help of SimPowerSystems available with MATLAB / SIMULINK and the results validated that the STATCOM controlled by all the three techniques offered voltage compensation in all the cases considered.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 667-680
Publish at: 2017-04-01

5G Fixed Beam Switching on Microstrip Patch Antenna

10.11591/.v7i2.pp975-980
Low Ching Yu , Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin
5G technology is using millimeter-wave band to improve the wireless communication system.  However, narrow transmitter and receiver beams have caused the beam coverage area to be limited. Due to propagation limitations of mm wave band, beam forming technology with multi-beam based communication system, has been focused to overcome the problem. In this letter, a fixed beam switching method is introduced. By changing the switches, four different configurations of patch array antennas are designed to investigate their performances in terms of radiation patterns, beam forming angle, gain, half-power bandwidth and impedance bandwidth at 28 GHz operating frequency for 5G application. Mircostrip antenna is preferred due to its low profile, easy in feeding and array configurations. Three different beam directions had been formed at -15°, 0°, and 15° with half-power bandwidth of range 45˚ to 50˚.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 975-980
Publish at: 2017-04-01

5G Coupler Design for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Application

10.11591/.v7i2.pp899-904
Dyg Norkhairunnisa Abang Zaidel , Norhudah Seman , Mohd Ridhuan Mohd Sharip , Dyg Azra Awang Mat , Nur Alia Athirah Mohtadzar
Aiming to achieve 3-dB coupling, operating in fifth generation (5G) technologies, this paper introduces a new design of tight coupling coupler that will be operated in 5G technologies. Two stubs and two slots have been implemented into the 3-dB coupler design in order to achieve impedance matching between the ports and to give better coupling performances, respectively. Moreover, a study on the stubs’ and slots’ effects towards the S31 of the 3-dB coupler has also been presented in this paper. The proposed coupler is designed on Rogers RO4003C substrate. The simulation results and the analytical study on the stubs and slots implementation show that both stubs and slots affect the performance of the coupling coefficient.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 899-904
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Fuzzy Recursive Least-Squares Approach in Speech System Identification: A Transformed Domain LPC Model

10.11591/.v7i2.pp842-849
Kah Wai Cheah , Noor Atinah Ahmad
In speech system identification, linear predictive coding (LPC) model is often employed due to its simple yet powerful representation of speech production model. However, the accuracy of LPC model often depends on the number and quality of past speech samples that are fed into the model; and it becomes a problem when past speech samples are not widely available or corrupted by noise. In this paper, fuzzy system is integrated into the LPC model using the recursive least-squares approach, where the fuzzy parameters are used to characterize the given speech samples. This transformed domain LPC model is called the FRLS-LPC model, in which its performance depends on the fuzzy rules and membership functions defined by the user. Based on the simulations, the FRLS-LPC model with this special property is shown to outperform the LPC model. Under the condition of limited past speech samples, simulation result shows that the synthetic speech produced by the FRLS-LPC model is better than those produced by the LPC model in terms of prediction error. Furthermore with corrupted past speech samples, the FRLS-LPC model is able to provide better reconstructed speech while the LPC model is failed to do so.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 842-849
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Hybrid System of Tiered Multivariate Analysis and Artificial Neural Network for Coronary Heart Disease Diagnosis

10.11591/.v7i2.pp1023-1031
Wiharto Wiharto , Hari Kusnanto , Herianto Herianto
Improved system performance diagnosis of coronary heart disease becomes an important topic in research for several decades. One improvement would be done by features selection, so only the attributes that influence is used in the diagnosis system using data mining algorithms. Unfortunately, the most feature selection is done with the assumption has provided all the necessary attributes, regardless of the stage of obtaining the attribute, and cost required. This research proposes a hybrid model system for diagnosis of coronary heart disease. System diagnosis preceded the feature selection process, using tiered multivariate analysis. The analytical method used is logistic regression. The next stage, the classification by using multi-layer perceptron neural network. Based on test results, system performance proposed value for accuracy 86.3%, sensitivity 84.80%, specificity 88.20%, positive prediction value (PPV) 90.03%, negative prediction value (NPV) 81.80%, accuracy 86,30%  and area under the curve (AUC) of 92.1%. The performance of a diagnosis using a combination attributes of risk factors,symptoms and exercise ECG. The conclusion that can be drawn is that the proposed diagnosis system capable of delivering performance in the very good category, with a number of attributes that are not a lot of checks and a relatively low cost.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 1023-1031
Publish at: 2017-04-01

A New Compact and Miniaturized GCPW-fed Slotted Rectangular antenna for Wideband UHF FIRD Applications

10.11591/.v7i2.pp767-774
Rachid Dakir , Jamal Zbitou , Ahmed Mouhsen , A. Tribak , M. Latrach , A. M. Sanchez
This paper presents the development of a new miniaturized and compact GCPW-fed slotted rectangular antenna structure reader for wideband UHF RFID applications. The optimized proposed antenna is suitable to operate a large frequency-band range from 0.8GHz to 1.3GHz with a bandwidth of 500MHz with a return loss less than -10dB. The antenna is based on a 1.6mm thickness FR4 epoxy substrate with a reduce dimensions compared to the simple rectangular antenna and size of proposed antenna is 47*40mm2. The new design consists of a compact rectangular patch with symmetric U-shaped slots and I-shaped include a partial ground plan and fed by 50 Grounded coplanar line. The antenna parameters have been investigated and optimized by   using   CST Microwave Studio. To validate the CST Microwave Studio results before the   antenna achievement,   we   have   conducted another study by using ADS. The   final circuit   achieved, measured and validated. Experimental results show that the proposed antenna has good radiation characteristics and operating in UHF-RFID applications.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 767-774
Publish at: 2017-04-01

A New Instrumentation Amplifier Architecture Based on Differential Difference Amplifier for Biological Signal Processing

10.11591/.v7i2.pp759-766
Zainul Abidin , Koichi Tanno , Shota Mago , Hiroki Tamura
In this paper, a new Instrumentation Amplifier (IA) architecture for biological signal pro-cessing is proposed. First stage of the proposed IA architecture consists of fully balance differential difference amplifier and three resistors. Its second stage was designed by using differential difference amplifier and two resistors. The second stage has smaller number of resistors than that of conventional one. The IA architectures are simulated and compared by using 1P 2M 0:6-m CMOS process. From HSPICE simulation result, lower common-mode voltage can be achieved by the proposed IA architecture. Average common-mode gain (Ac) of the proposed IA architecture is 31:26 dB lower than that of conventional one under 3% resistor mismatches condition. Therefore, the Ac of the proposed IA architecture is more insensitive to resistor mismatches and suitable for biological signal processing.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 759-766
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Compressed Sensing Speech Signal Enhancement Research

10.11591/ijeecs.v6.i1.pp26-35
Kuangfeng Ning , Guojun Qin
The proposed Compressive sensing method is a new alternative method, it is used to eliminate noise from the input signal, and the quality of the speech signal is enhanced with fewer samples, thus it is required for the reconstruction than needed in some of the methods like Nyquist sampling theorem. The basic idea is that the speech signals are sparse in nature, and most of the noise signals are non-sparse in nature, and Compressive Sensing(CS) eliminates the non-sparse components and it reconstructs only the sparse components of the input signal. Experimental results prove that the average segmental SNR (signal to noise ratio) and PESQ (perceptual evaluation of speech quality) scores are better in the compressed domain.
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page: 26-35
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Lyot-based Multi-wavelength Fiber Laser

10.11591/.v7i2.pp981-985
Suhairie Saleh , N. A. Cholan , A. H. Sulaiman , M. A. Mahdi
A multi-wavelength fiber laser which is based on a Lyot filter is experimentally demonstrated. A combination of four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear fiber and Lyot filter mechanism in the laser cavity is able to generate multi-wavelength with relatively high extinction ratio (ER). At the input current of 100mA, six laser lines with ER more than 5 dB are successfully generated. The wavelength spacing for the multi-wavelength is 0.15nm, corresponding to the characteristics of the Lyot filter used.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 981-985
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Wide Area Oscillation Damping using Utility-Scale PV Power Plants Capabilities

10.11591/.v7i2.pp681-691
Mehrdad Moradi , Pouria Maghouli
With increasing implementation of Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS) in power grids, application of wide area damping controllers (WADCs) to damp power system oscillations is of interest. On the other hand it is well known that rapidly increasing integration of renewable energy sources into the grid can dangerously reduce the inertia of the system and degrade the stability of power systems. This paper aimed to design a novel WADC for a utility-scale PV solar farm to damp out inter area oscillations while the main focus of the work is to eliminate the impact of communication delays of wide-area signals from the WAMS. Moreover the PV farm impact on inter area oscillation mitigation is investigated in various case studies, namely, with WADC on the active power control loop and with WADC on the reactive power control loop. The Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization (QPSO) technique is applied to normalize and optimize the parameters of WADC for inter-area oscillations damping and continuous compensation of time-varying latencies. The proposed method is prosperously applied in a 16-bus six-machine test system and various case studies are conducted to demonstrate the potential of the proposed structure.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 681-691
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Radiation Pattern Performance of Unequally Linear Arrays with Parasitic Element

10.11591/ijeecs.v6.i1.pp110-115
Noor Ainniesafina Zainal , Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin , Yoshihide Yamada , Norhudah Seman
For next generation of 5G mobile base station antennas, multibeam, multifrequency and low sidelobe characteristics requested. Simplify the feeding network will contribute a low feeder loss and frequency dependent. From the previous research by the author, low sidelobe level reported by density tapered array configuration from -13 dB to -16 dB and the result maintained for wideband operation frequency at 28 GHz, 42 GHz, and 56 GHz. However, the grating lobe has occurred due to element spacing larger than a wavelength of higher frequency (56 GHz). In this paper, an investigation was made of the performance of radiation pattern for unequally microstrip linear array antenna in frequency 42 GHz and 56 GHz by loading parasitic elements. The effect of parasitic element to the impedance, gain, and sidelobe level of unequally microstrip linear spaced tapered array also examined. The design has been simulated using Ansoft High Frequency Structural Simulator (HFSS) ver 16.0.
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page: 110-115
Publish at: 2017-04-01

The Weights Detection of Multi-criteria by using Solver

10.11591/.v7i2.pp858-868
Fachrurrazi Fachrurrazi , Yuwaldi Away , Saiful Husin
Multi criteria, which are generally used for decision analysis, have certain characteristics that relate to the purpose of the decision. Multi criteria have complex structures and have different weights depending upon the consideration of assessors and the purpose of the decision also. Expert’s judgment will be used to detect the criteria weights that applied by assessors. The aim of this study is a model to detect the criteria weights and biases on the subcontractor selection and detecting the significant weights, as decisive criteria. A method, which is used to modeling the weights detection, is the Solver Application. Data, totaling 40 sets, has been collected that consist of the assessor’s assessment and the expert’s judgment. The result is a pattern of weights and biases detection. The proposed model have been able to detect of 20 criteria weights and biases, that consist of 4 criteria in  the total weights of 60% (as decisive criteria) and 16 criteria in the total weights of 40%. A model has been built by training process performed by the Solver, which the result for MSE training is 9.73711e-08 and for MSE validation is 0.00900528. Novelty in the study is a model to detect pattern of weights criteria and biases on subcontractor selection by transferring the expert's judgment using Solver Application.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 858-868
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Generator Assessment of Hydro Power Station Adequacy after Reconstruction from Classical to HIS SF6 Substation

10.11591/.v7i2.pp729-740
Srete Nikolovski , Goran Slipac , Emir Alibašić
Reliability analysis of substations and generator assessment of power plant stations are very important elements in a design and maintenance process. This paper presents a generator adequacy assessment of a classical “H” scheme for an open conventional substation, which is often used, and a new HIS - High Integrated Switchgear with SF6 gas isolation. Generator adequacy indices of both types of classical and HIS switchgear were compared and the results showed a high level of reliability and availability of the HIS presented substation. The input data were the annual reports of Croatian TSO-Transmission System Operator (HOPS) and statistics of operation events of Croatian National Electricity (HEP Inc.). For the HIS substation, the input reliability data were used from relevant international literature since only few of HIS substations are installed in Croatia. The generator is modelled with a three-state Markov state space model and Monte Carlo simulations were used for the generator assessment analysis. Adequacy indices LOLP and EDNS were obtained using DIgSILENT software.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 729-740
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Mining Relation Extraction Based on Pattern Learning Approach

10.11591/ijeecs.v6.i1.pp50-57
Mujiono Sadikin
Semantically, objects in unstructured document are related each other to perform a certain entity relation. This certain entity relation such: drug-drug interaction through their compounds, buyer-seller relationship through the goods or services, etc. Motivated by those kind of interaction, this study proposes a method to extract those objects and their interactions. It is presented a general framework of object-interaction mining of large corpora. The framework is started with the initial step in extracting a single object in the unstructured document. In this study, the initial step is a pattern learning method that is applied to drug-label documents to extract drug-names. We utilize an existing external knowledge to identify a certain regular expressions surrounding the targeted object and the probabilities of those regular expression, to perform the pattern learning process. The performance of this pattern learning approach is promising to apply in this relation extraction area. As presented in the results of this study, the best f-score performance of this method is 0.78 f-score. With adjusting of some parameters and or improving the method, the performance can be potentially improved.
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page: 50-57
Publish at: 2017-04-01
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